Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows

From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 17:56:38 -0700

Hi. Where is the message in your new post? Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon B" <serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows


Yardbird wrote:
> P.S.
>
> So, does this mean that you believe the person you replied to is spreading
> eisinformation about the future of Windows in order to turn some of us
> toward considering a Mac or a Linux computer? That's the sense I get from
> the Wikipedia explanation, that it means to spread negative rumors about a
> product in order to turn potential customers off to it and propel them
> toward the product made by the company tha'ts disseminating the FUD.
>
> Or is it now sometimes used more casually, so that there doesn't have to 
> be
> a real or implied motive behind it in that sense if you just want to 
> invoke
> the expression in a more general way, for effect?
>
> thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon B"<serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:<jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
>
>
> FUD,  means
> Fear, uncertainty and doubt
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt
> Sorry for the confusion.
> Yardbird wrote:
>
>> ah, here's an opportunity to learn a new technical word. Fud. What's a
>> fud.
>> Is it a mistype of an all-capitalized acronym, FUD? If so, what does that
>> stand for? Or is it a word, in which case what does it mean? any relation
>> to
>> Elmer Fudd?
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brandon B"<serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To:<jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
>>
>>
>> Just because a touch interface is optional, doesn't mean it's the
>> default. Windows seven would fail if your fud was the case because many
>> hardware offered out at launch wouldn't be totally ready for this.
>>
>>
>> Jim Talley wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Microsoft unveils touch-screen Windows
>>> Microsoft Corp. said its next operating system will be made for
>>> touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse, and
>>> its top executives
>>> reaffirmed interest in joining forces with Yahoo Inc.
>>>
>>>
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> It's probably more of the second one. The message didn't read like a 
> clasic fud, more of just misinformation. It's still fud though.


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References:
- Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
  - From: Jim Talley
- Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
  - From: Brandon B
- Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
  - From: Yardbird
- Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
  - From: Brandon B
- Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
  - From: Yardbird
- Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
  - From: Brandon B

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